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1st April 2014, 01:24 PM #1
'smiife' inspired spiral
Well I saw your WIP and I thought 'yeah, I could try that!'
So off to find some timber. There is some stuff cut down around Christmas and carefully racked, waned dipped and painted to stop checking ...... Not
Guess I better cut a piece
That was too long. Where's the saw switch
I think they call this stuff privet, let's mount it
Cuts nice
I thought strings like this shooting off the chisel clear across the room only happened in America
TBC
Dave the turning cowboy
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1st April 2014, 05:05 PM #2
Getting title fixed. Was meant to be 'smiife' inspired spiral
Next was marking out. Marked 8 lines up and down the length and them lines about 20mm apart
Rather than take the work to the drill press I decided to take the drill press to the work. It turns out this set up is great in principle but a little flexible in practice. Neither is a spade bit a good idea.
Here is my break / clutch mechanism. It is a strap clap for framing. Worked very well.
Time to speed up the drill and try a router bit
This worked after a fashion. Here was the end result after some sanding.
Im gonna do some more fine tuning even though it is only a test piece.
Dave the turning cowboy
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1st April 2014, 05:35 PM #3
Now this is one nice part of the forum. Great sharing and someone giving it a go.
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1st April 2014, 06:55 PM #4Skwair2rownd
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Well done Dave!! Some good ideas there for the memory banks!!
Good to see that privet is "useful" for something. Otherwise it is just another stinking
weed imported by homesick Poms.
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1st April 2014, 08:13 PM #5
Hi dave,
Hope you don, t mind me suggesting a few things to help
Take the spirals to the ends of your billet and then sand, sand,
and sand again, the layout is critical to the end result and
has to be done very precisely and the ratio is 7 to 8
7 gaps along and 8 lines around and the twist comes in
where the lines cross
You have done a good job on the first one, well done
now you have to make a pair, and we are all watching!!
NO PRESSURE NOW,,,,,,!!!!!!!,,
Cheers smiife
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1st April 2014, 08:50 PM #6
Always happy for advice
Dave the turning cowboy
turning wood into art
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1st April 2014, 09:20 PM #7
By coincidence I think I got the 7 to 8 layout, when you say take the spirals to the end of your billet what do you mean?
Thanks
Dave the turning cowboy
turning wood into art
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